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Free Premium Membership Day

Free Premium Membership Day is less than a week away!

On April 7, 2014, all members of deviantART will have access to Premium Member features. For an entire 24 hours, starting at 12 midnight and ending at 11:59 PM Los Angeles, CA, time, you’ll be able to enjoy the perks of a Premium Membership, including Multi- and Scheduled Submit, ad-free browsing, Journal Skins, and so much more!

Integrating Sketchfab In Journals

DeviantART is proud to announce a new partnership with 3D web publishing service, Sketchfab!

Sketchfab, a leading platform to publish, share, and embed interactive 3D content, allows you to bring your 3D artwork to life in real-time without a plugin.

Deviants can now embed 3D models into deviantART Journals using Sketchfab embeds. DeviantART is always aiming to make content on the site more engaging and interactive, and this integration benefits both creators and those who enjoy browsing incredible content.

The username autocomplete menu will now hide as soon as you've typed a non-valid username, and won't delete what you've typed if you hit enter or tab before it finishes looking up usernames. Fixed by kemayo

Your Feedback

Deviants had various ideas regarding the Save the Date update, but you'll be pleased to know that the announcement wasn't an April Fools' prank. Enjoy Free Premium Membership Day this upcoming Monday!

In response to the Discuss topic, some deviants mentioned not following our social channels. However, the deviants who do follow mentioned liking the variety of art shared, and wanting a wider variety of art to be shared as well.

aemiliuslives mentioned wanting to see more posts about art in general, in addition to art posts relating specifically to deviantART.

Discuss!

Autocomplete for Mentions

Have you used @ to mention deviants? Do you frequently use the autocomplete menu to do so? What are your thoughts on mentions, and the autocomplete menu?

The not-neutral, gaudy, ugly green is NOT optimal for viewing variously colored images. It skews the viewers' perception. Some shade of gray or white is best: art stands out best against a neutral background, and the arts' own colors are true against a neutral background.

I also disagree with your opinion, and suggestions are also given by the masses, staff and sometimes friends of staff because things can be unfair like that at times.

Suggestions are not taken from the minority, and definitely not from a single person like you.This background colour has been used for years, if you look at the wayback machine you'll see they've been using these colours since 2008, and even before then they used very similar colours.web.archive.org/web/2008071504…So why bother changing it?

You might enjoy the shade grey, but i enjoy colours.I do not think the background of deviantart is ugly.

Actually, DA seems to be one of the places where suggestions are most certainly given out by the masses, as you call them. If the background colour was that big an issue we'd see it coming up here over and over again.I don't know what an outlier is.

Yep, you too mate.And actually I believe I'm correct in saying that black text on a white background, as used in the journals you link to, is not the best combination. We use it for traditional, historic purposes - going back to the time when the easiest way to produce usable paper was to bleach it white and the easiest colour of ink to produce was black. I think you will find that from the point of view of a dyslexic person or someone with certain types of visual impairment, black text on a white background is not very good.

today is 7 April but how can get Free Premium Membership?I want to change username how change it! - i think your Free Premium Membership does not Work! or make fool to every buddy! See below Imagei.imgur.com/8xctxgb.jpg

i think dA Staff member not give Free one day Premium Membership that is better, because they lots of feature he off and include username. How dA Staff do that? there is no men of Free one day Premium Membership change it name to "Free one day Some Premium feature Membership" <~ that if better name. PPl hoping they can change username to this 7 April day. DA staff member make Fool ppl.